Director Abbas Kiarostami, left and actress Rin Takanashi pose during a photo call for Like Somone in Love at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 21, 2012.

Film experts Laurence Kardish and Godfrey Cheshire discuss how the Iranian director was serious about pursuing experimental work outside of cinema. Abbas Kiarostami had one of the most acclaimed ...

The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who died yesterday at the age of seventy-six, was simply one of the most original and influential directors in the history of cinema. He achieved something that ...

The story of a young boy, a loaf of bread, and a hungry dog launched a legendary career. Yesterday, legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami died at the age of 76. The man behind such ...

One of cinema’s great masters, Abbas Kiarostami, whose pictures could be intimate and human-scaled while also self-reflexive and bracingly political, died today in Paris. The Palme D’Or winner — for ...

Abbas Kiarostami, the greatest Iranian filmmaker, didn’t quite finish his final film, 24 Frames, before dying in July 2016. His son, Ahmad, supervised completion, ushering the film to its premiere at ...

“Certified Copy,” which opens this Friday (and which David Denby writes about in a Critic at Large piece available to subscribers), is the first dramatic feature that the Iranian director Abbas ...

There’s a lot of driving and talking in “Like Someone in Love,” Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami‘s latest production made outside of his native country, but beyond that is anyone’s guess. Following ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abbas Kiarostami was famous for pushing the boundaries of cinematic narrative in films like “Close-Up,” “Taste of Cherry,” and ...

Acclaimed filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (“Taste of Cherry,” “Close-Up,” “Certified Copy”) will be hosting a 10-day workshop for 35 students, each of whom will get the opportunity to make a short film ...

When Abbas Kiarostami died on July 4th at the age of 76, people who in any small way loved the man’s work became, as is often the case in the wake of the passing of any iconic artist, suddenly aware ...